<VV> Yellow Lola/Corvair

[Bruce Schug]

On Jan 5, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Taruffi57@aol.com wrote:

> Seth, I just want to say that being new here and recently discovering 
> that
> you now own the Lola/Corvair, I would like to inform you that I had 
> first dibs
> on that car from the 2000 Daytona Convention.  Here I've been waiting 
> on a call
> all this long and now I find out you have it.
> You owe me one.....

Seth sold the Lola to Joe Christ, a long-time member of CORSA South 
Carolina, several years ago. Joe went through the car and cleaned it 
up; did some work on the Webers and restored it to it's previous 
pristine condition. Joe rarely drives it. He's run it at our autocross, 
"Corvairs in the Curves" and at Daytona. It could be seen in a picture 
in the report I did on our autocross in a recent "Communique". I know 
he played around with it at a local airport runway getting used to it 
too, but besides that, I don't think he's run it anywhere else.

Joe is quite an interesting guy, He has lots of toys including a 
Pantera, some road graders, bulldozers, and tractors along with several 
Corvairs, trucks, boats and you name it. He's mid-seventies and a 
retired welder. Joe can make about anything out of wood or metal and is 
currently working on restoring/rebuilding a canon. As far as I know, 
the only person who's driven the Lola since he got it is his son, 
Randy, a former Michelin test driver and Porsche guy. Randy loves the 
car. Joe is not a serious competitor but has more fun with it than you 
can imagine. If the car had a new set of tires and was driven by a real 
"hot shoe" it could run with any "Corvair" in existence. Even with its 
old tires, it is one of the most well-built, beautiful "Corvairs" 
you'll ever see. It will probably make an appearance this Fall at the 
sixteenth "Corvairs in the Curves", in Greenville, SC. One more reason 
to come to "the Curves".

Bruce


Bruce W. Schug
CORSA South Carolina
Greenville, SC
bwschug@charter.net

CORSA member since 1981

'67 Monza. "67AC140"